A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...leaving to attend Western Kentucky University, 1953–1954. From 1954 until 1956, he served in the United States Army. He earned a B.A. at the University of Kentucky in 1958 and...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...successful landscaper in the 1980s. He is renowned for pairing English garden aesthetics with native plants of the southeastern United States. As is evident in the introduction of this short...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...discovered no trace of HIV in the baby. As The New York Times reported, transmission of HIV from mother to baby is rare in the United States, about two hundred...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...reported by Nick Carbone of Time magazine's Newsfeed Blog. The border between North Carolina and South Carolina has been redrawn numerous times over the course of British colonial and United...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Library (MARBL), tells complex, personal, and painful stories that contribute to a new vernacular in the depiction and description of African American experience in the United States. In describing his...
Whiskey and Geography
...no one desperate enough to take the job.8Ibid. Resistance to the whiskey tax politicized and united many local communities in ways that no other issue had before. Even as Secretary...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...and separatists, and all points in between and beyond, claim that the Ortiz essay proves their point and disproves those they disagree with. For me, it is an essay in...
Mapping Souths
...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...